Thinking of getting a nexus player

[H2o]

On your Mac book and apple TV you are using your apple account to accomplish all those things, on the nexus player you would use your google account and their services to accomplish the same thing---google movies and TV

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[jaleelhamid]

But what if i download a movie off a torrent site?

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[npaladin-2000]

No one on here would ever encourage the downloading of torrents or any other illegaly obtained media. However, I figure there's at least one video player out there plus Chromecast capability, which means if you (legally and justifiably of course) own any media you could play it on an Android TV, provided it's in a compatible format. Which I'm guessing would be MP4 (H.264 and VP8 video with AAC or MP3 audio)

 

[jaleelhamid]

Yeah I guess lol but everybody uses torrent lol chrome cast will only work on chrome or YouTube

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[npaladin-2000]

Yeah I guess lol but everybody uses torrent lol chrome cast will only work on chrome or YouTube

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Wrong, there's plenty of direct casting media players, check out Allcast and LocalCast.

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[jaleelhamid]

Really so all cast or local cast I can download a movie from torrent website and stream it from my macbook using either app and stream it on my nexus player?

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[npaladin-2000]

Really so all cast or local cast I can download a movie from torrent website and stream it from my macbook using either app and stream it on my nexus player?

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There's a couple of possibilities. Not sure about that specific one, but if you have an Android phone one of those apps would work. There's a Chrome app that would work too.

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[jaleelhamid]

But nothing from google themselfs that has a casting video app

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[Greg C]

What is kodi

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Kodi | Open Source Home Theatre Software

Download the Helix 14 x86 version. If you download and use Kodi...a whole new world in entertainment streaming opens up. The ability to use Kodi on the Nexus Player is...by itself...the best reason to get the Nexus Player.

 

[npaladin-2000]

But nothing from google themselfs that has a casting video app

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No, Google wants you to use their stuff, just like Apple. However, in general, unlike Apple, they don't stop anyone ELSE from coming up with things that bypass their stuff. Hence apps like LocalCast and the like (including the solution described above).

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[jaleelhamid]

Oh OK so local cast is good to stream anything from my computer to nexus player?

No, Google wants you to use their stuff, just like Apple. However, in general, unlike Apple, they don't stop anyone ELSE from coming up with things that bypass their stuff. Hence apps like LocalCast and the like (including the solution described above).

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[jaleelhamid]

What is kodi exactly do

Kodi | Open Source Home Theatre Software

Download the Helix 14 x86 version. If you download and use Kodi...a whole new world in entertainment streaming opens up. The ability to use Kodi on the Nexus Player is...by itself...the best reason to get the Nexus Player.

 

[npaladin-2000]

Oh OK so local cast is good to stream anything from my computer to nexus player?

It'll stream anything from your phone, or from network storage (SMB, DNLA) that your phone can access to a Chromecast (or a Nexus player pretending to be a Chromecast).

The Chrome app is called Videostream, that might work too if you're willing to install Chrome on your Mac.

Building in Chromecast functionality was pretty smart on Google's part, gave them an already existing ecosystem of apps to work with while people develop AndroidTV-specific apps. I have no doubt a network-based media player is being worked on for AndroidTV, if one isn't out there already.

 

[H2o]

Plex works fantastic. Kodi/xbmc world great as well

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[jaleelhamid]

It'll stream anything from your phone, or from network storage (SMB, DNLA) that your phone can access to a Chromecast (or a Nexus player pretending to be a Chromecast).

The Chrome app is called Videostream, that might work too if you're willing to install Chrome on your Mac.

Building in Chromecast functionality was pretty smart on Google's part, gave them an already existing ecosystem of apps to work with while people develop AndroidTV-specific apps. I have no doubt a network-based media player is being worked on for AndroidTV, if one isn't out there already.

I already have chrome browser installed on my Mac

 

[jaleelhamid]

So I got my nexus player but when I use video stream my tv shows the video stream logos but doesn't play my video and chrome shows the video but doesn't play?